<span><span style="font-style:italic;">No Experience Necessary</span><span> is Chef Norman Van Aken’s delicious joyride of a memoir. the book spans twenty-plus years and nearly as many jobs—including the fateful job advertised in the local paper for a short-order cook: “no experience necessary.” Long considered a culinary renegade and pioneering restaurateur, Van Aken is an American original who chopped and charred, sweated and seared his way to cooking stardom with no formal training, but with extra helpings of energy, creativity, and faith. </span><span style="font-style:italic;">No Experience Necessary </span><span>offers a uniquely personal, highly-entertaining under-the-tablecloth view of the high stakes world of American cuisine told with wit, insight, and great affection by a natural storyteller.</span></span>